Visualization of Text in a Story
Readers often make connections with the words on a page by drawing pictures in their mind about the words they are reading. They make pictures of the people and places described in the book. This is one way a reader can better understand and remember what is happening in a book.
Today we will be reading a passage from one of my favorite books, Charlotte's Web, and trying to visualize and draw a picture, first in our mind, and then using paper or a computer website to describe the words. As background information below is a brief summary of the book Charolotte's Web.
Charlotte's Web was written by E. B. White in the year 1952.
Charlotte's Web is a wonderful story about a young girl, Fern, a pig named Wilbur, and a spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered, his friend Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live. Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, and with the assistance of the gluttonous rat Templeton, Wilbur not only lives, but goes to the county fair with Charlotte and wins a prize. Having reached the end of her natural lifespan, Charlotte dies at the fair. Wilbur repays Charlotte by bringing home with him the sac of eggs she had laid at the fair before dying. When Charlotte's eggs hatch at Zuckerman's farm, most of them leave to make their own lives elsewhere, except for three: Joy, Aranea, and Nellie, who remain there as friends to Wilbur.
Assignment
Below is a passage from Charlotte's Web. When I read these words I became an artist and drew a picture in my mind about the barn- what the barn looks like, the size of the barn, the color, the animals, etc? When I had a clear picture in my mind about what this barn looks like I went to a website called ArtPad to draw my picture.....my visualization of the words that described the barn. Below is my example of my artwork and the passage I read.
"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay......It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows......It smelled of grain and of harness dressing and of axle grease and of rubber boots and of new rope. It was full of all sorts of things that you find in barns: ladders, grindstones, pitchforks, monkey wrenches, scythes, lawn mowers, snow shovels, ax handles, milk pails, water buckets, empty grain sacks, and rusty rat traps. It was the kind of barn that swallows like to build their nests in. It was the kind of barn that children like to play in."
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Visualization of Text in a Story
Readers often make connections with the words on a page by drawing pictures in their mind about the words they are reading. They make pictures of the people and places described in the book. This is one way a reader can better understand and remember what is happening in a book.
Today we will be reading a passage from one of my favorite books, Charlotte's Web, and trying to visualize and draw a picture, first in our mind, and then using paper or a computer website to describe the words. As background information below is a brief summary of the book Charolotte's Web.
Charlotte's Web was written by E. B. White in the year 1952.
Charlotte's Web is a wonderful story about a young girl, Fern, a pig named Wilbur, and a spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered, his friend Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live. Thanks to Charlotte's efforts, and with the assistance of the gluttonous rat Templeton, Wilbur not only lives, but goes to the county fair with Charlotte and wins a prize. Having reached the end of her natural lifespan, Charlotte dies at the fair. Wilbur repays Charlotte by bringing home with him the sac of eggs she had laid at the fair before dying. When Charlotte's eggs hatch at Zuckerman's farm, most of them leave to make their own lives elsewhere, except for three: Joy, Aranea, and Nellie, who remain there as friends to Wilbur.
Assignment
Below is a passage from Charlotte's Web. When I read these words I became an artist and drew a picture in my mind about the barn- what the barn looks like, the size of the barn, the color, the animals, etc? When I had a clear picture in my mind about what this barn looks like I went to a website called ArtPad to draw my picture.....my visualization of the words that described the barn. Below is my example of my artwork and the passage I read.
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*The Ludlow Public School District is not responsible for any information that may be accessed once the user has left this wiki, including external web page content as well as material accessed via links from external web pages.